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{{Short description|German newspaper}}
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| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format = [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]]
| owners = [[Funke Mediengruppe]]
| founder = [[Erich Brost]]
| publisher = Zeitungsverlag Ruhrgebiet GmbH & Co. KG
| editor =
| chiefeditor = {{ill|Andreas Tyrock|de}}
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| foundation = {{start date and age|df=y|1948|4|3}}
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| headquarters = [[Essen]], Germany
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| website = {{url|https://www.waz.de}}
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[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F077589-0007, Bundesrat, Sitzung.jpg|thumb|[[Johannes Rau]], reading the ''WAZ'' (1988)]]
The '''''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''''' (''WAZ'') is a commercial newspaper from [[Essen]], Germany, published by [[Funke Mediengruppe]].<ref>{{cite web|author=David Ward|title=A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries|url=http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|work=Dutch Media Authority|access-date=3 April 2014|year=2004}}</ref>
==History and profile==
''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' was founded by [[Erich Brost]] and first published 3 April 1948.<ref>[http://www.brost.org/erich-brost-1+M52087573ab0.html Biography of Erich Brost]</ref> The paper has its headquarters in Essen.<ref name=gh>{{cite web|author=Georg Hellack|title=Press, Radio and Television in the Federal Republic of Germany|url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED353617.pdf|work=Inter Nationes|access-date=3 April 2015|format=Report|date=1992}}</ref> During the third quarter of 1992 ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' had a circulation of 626,000 copies.<ref name=gh/>
After the turn of the millennium, the WAZ came under economic pressure in the face of media change, so that several cost-cutting programs were adopted and editorial offices were closed. The last foreign offices were closed in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-19|author=Stefan Winterbauer|date=2009-12-03|language=de-DE|title=WAZ-Sparhammer: erneut 300 Stellen weg {{!}} MEEDIA|url=https://meedia.de/2009/12/03/waz-sparhammer-erneut-300-stellen-weg/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-19|author=DWDL.de|title=WAZ-Gruppe steht nächste große Sparrunde bevor|url=https://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/37579/wazgruppe_steht_naechste_massive_sparrunde_bevor/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> In 2015, the local edition in Lünen, whose local content had previously no longer been produced in-house but supplied by Ruhr Nachrichten, was discontinued. WAZ's editorial independence was also gradually reduced: national reporting was outsourced to a Funke central editorial office in Berlin in 2015, while a Funke-wide "competence center" for sports was established in Essen in 2016.
At the same time, the publishing house invested in digital content: In 2007, the online portal DerWesten.de went online, which bundled all of the WAZ Group's editorial reporting in North Rhine-Westphalia on one platform. However, this strategy was abandoned in 2012. While DerWesten was transformed into a tabloid site, the digital content of the WAZ editorial offices has since been published on waz.de again.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-19|author=DWDL de GmbH|language=en|title=Die Marke "DerWesten" ist weitgehend Geschichte|url=https://www.dwdl.de/nachrichten/36075/die_marke_derwesten_ist_weitgehend_geschichte/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
In 2019, the WAZ central editorial office and the local editorial office in Essen moved to the Funke Media Group's new media building and the former publishing house was demolished.
As part of a cost-cutting program, the printing plant in Essen was closed in 2021;<ref name=":0">{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-19|title=Historie|url=https://www.funkemedien.de/de/das-unternehmen/historie/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> since then, all WAZ editions have been produced at the Funke printing center in Hagen-Bathey.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-06-19|title=Funke Zeitungsdruckereien - Referenzen|url=https://funke-zeitungsdruckereien.de/dz_hagen/referenzen/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
== Editor-in-chiefs ==
* 1948–1970: [[Erich Brost]]
* 1970–1988: [[Siegfried Maruhn]]
* 1988–2000: [[Ralf Lehmann]]
* 2000–2005: [[Uwe Knüpfer]]
* 2005–2014: [[Ulrich Reitz]]
* since 2014: [[Andreas Tyrock]]
== See also ==
* [[List of newspapers in Germany]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{Official|https://www.waz.de/}}
{{Authority control}}
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